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- Faucher K X, Metastasis and Metastability. A Deleuzian Approach to Information (2013)
- mation, differing to the degree and effectiveness that they might elect answer the ontological question ... excluded in the definition. This is not an issue that will be settled in its entirety any time soon, no... l exploration. I am generally suspicious of terms that achieve definitional consensus too soon since it ... nsideration, leading in part to a crystallization that owes more to discursive agendas than to a more si
- Braver, L., A Thing of This World. A history of Continental Anti-Realism. (2007)
- the mind until there was no longer a there there, that is, not even a substantial mind to be emptied. Fa... m being rationally justifiable, Hume demonstrated that most of our beliefs are determined by an arational reflex, a process that has roughly the epistemological status of digesti... **Copernican Revolution**: the epoch-making claim that the mind actively processes or organizes experien
- Bryant L, Diference and Givenness (2008)
- diversity. Diversity is given, but difference is that by which the given is given, that by which the given is given as diverse.\\ -Gilles Deleuze, Difference... etzsche, or Bergson. I do not seek to demonstrate that Deleuze is really a Bergsonian vitalist in disgui... of Sense. In what follows I seek to demonstrate that Deleuze's transcenden tal empiricism attempts to
- Stotz, K., Biological Information, Causality, and Specificity: An Intimate Relationship (2017)
- ew. In this chapter we outline a proposal to fill that gap by grounding the idea of biological informati... y have set out to vindicate the common assumption that nucleic acids are distinctively informational mol... permissive and instructive interactions, reveals that ‘information’ is a way to talk about specificity.... d contemporary account of causation in philosophy that grounds causal relationships in ideas about manip
- Collier, J.D., Information, Causation and Computation (2011)
- ll information takes a physical form, and second, that everything that is real is dynamical or can be explained in dynamical terms. Something is dynamical onl... involves nothing but forces and flows. It follows that information must be explicable in terms of forces... f what it is to make a physical difference, given that information is well characterized as "a distincti
- Anjum, R.L., Mumford, S., Dispositional Modality (2011)
- ns in the past decade, but there remains an issue that has been inadequately treated. This concerns the precise modal value that comes with dispositionality. We contend in this paper that dispositionality involves a non-alethic, sui gene... reducible nature of dispositionality, we maintain that it cannot be explicated correctly in non-disposit
- Meillassoux, Q. Potentiality and Virtuality (2011)
- nstants? ’ A lack of necessity would not en- tail that constants change, but rather that it is entirely contingent whether they stay the same or not. Once suc... ts not change at every moment? Meillassoux argues that this apparent paradox is contingent upon the acce... rse. It is on the basis of this Cantorian advance that Meillassoux sets forth a fundamental distinction
- Collier, J.D., Causation is the Transfer of Information (1999)
- ent of the regularity theory (attributed to Hume) that uses counterfactuals (Lewis, 1973; 1994). A secon... h Reichenbach and revived by Salmon (1984), holds that a causal process is one that can be marked. This view relies heavily on ideas about the transfer of inf... cently by Dowe (1992) and Salmon (1994). It holds that a causal process involves the transfer of a non-z
- Marletto. C, Constructor Theory of Life (2014)
- ation and natural selection. In this paper I show that for those processes to be possible without the de... selection, within fundamental physics. I conclude that self-reproduction, replication and natural select... design laws, the only non-trivial condition being that they allow digital information to be physically i... he constructor theory of information. I also show that under no-design laws an accurate replicator requi
- Dodig-Crnkovic, G. Where Do New Ideas Come From? How Do They Emerge? Epistemology as Computation (2007)
- om]] This essay presents arguments for the claim that in the best of all possible worlds (Leibniz) ther... ological ideas come from? How do they emerge?” is that they come from the world and emerge from basic ph... ystem. For the universe at large it is randomness that is the source of unpredictability on the fundamen... here are incompressible truths which means truths that cannot be computed by any other computer but the
- Marletto, C. Beyond Initial Conditions and Laws of Motion. Constructor Theory of Information and Life. (2017)
- orporate exactly into fundamental physics notions that have so far been considered as highly approximate... f ‘quantum information’ – the kind of information that is deemed to be instantiated in quantum systems. ... planation of how certain physical transformations that are fundamental to the theory of evolution by nat... eproduction – are compatible with laws of physics that do not contain the design of biological adaptatio
- Geoghegan, B. D, From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus (2011)
- ss set about overturning the centuries-old belief that European scientific and technical reasoning, ... ed into a discrete series of signals and messages that invite our recognition and interpretation. In tr... microscopes//” (SM,p.268). Lévi-Strauss explained that after centuries of division be- tween civilized a... nd specialized community of engineers. How is it that the father of French structuralism came to celebr
- Iliadis, A., Philosophy of Information: An Introduction (2013)
- . Philosophy of Information (PI) proponents think that Gates has a point – but this doesn’t mean we shou... refines the new ideas, theories, and perspectives that we need to understand and address these important problems that press us so urgently. Of course, this naturally i
- Unger, R., Smolin, L. The singular universe and the reality of time: a proposal in natural philosophy (2015)
- e universe is one of the two most ambitious tasks that thought can undertake. Nothing matches it in ambi... ch it easily deceives itself into claiming powers that it lacks. Yet we cannot cast this topic aside. ... its history. The most important such discovery is that the universe has a history. Part of the task is t
- Albantakis, L. Automata and Animats: From Dynamics to Cause–Effect Structures (2017)
- rajectory of the system through its state space – that is, they take an extrinsic perspective on what is... ds and information theory. In a shift of focus to that of causal architecture, Albantakis and Tononi con... egrated information theory (IIT), and demonstrate that intrinsic (causal) complexity (as quantified by i